Joens Fries
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Joens Elias Fries (born April 6, 1876 in Sweden) was a chief engineer for the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company and a noted amateur mycologist.
Fries was the son of Andreas Peter and Maria Charlotta Castenson Fries of Sweden, and was a related to the noted mycologists Elias Magnus Fries (1794-1878) and Theodor Magnus Fries (1832-1913)
References
- Moore, Daniel Decatur (1922) Men of the South: A Work for the Newspaper Reference Library. Southern Biographical Association